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tipproach Alicantara with his corps, in order to ma meuvre with you on the right of the Tagus. (Signed) • The Prince of WAGRAM and NEUF3HATEL. (Countersigned) • Major-General ALEXANDER. No. 6.—Translation. [These two letters are seat by Si lviera, and attested by him to have been intercepted in the neighbourhood of Zamora.] Pinar, May 30, IS to. To the General of Division Bonnet. I inform you, Sir, that I have direeted the Afar shal the Prince of Esdiig to form a division, which will be commanded by Gen. Serres, and will occupy his right. This division, of nearly 10,000 infantry, and 1500 cavalry, will manoeuvre between Astorga, the kingdom of Leon, and Zamora, in order to keep in check the airny of Gallicia, maintain the com munication with you, menace Portugal on the side of Braganca, and cover the plains of Valladolid. (Signed) The Prince of WAGRAM and NEUFCHATEL, &C. &C. &c. Salamanca, June 22, 1810. NTONSILUit X. COLONZL, I have the honour to inform you, that as soon as the provisional regiment of dragoons No. iO, shall have arrived at Benevente, or in its environs, you are to take with your whole regiment the direction of Lederma, and from thence to St. Felices el Chico, in order to join our brig:ide. H. E. the Duke of Abrantes wishes that this movement should be efie6ted with the greatest ce- lerity. rbe General of Brigade, Chief of the Etat- Major of the Bth Corps, J. BOYER. FRENCH PAPERS.' PARIS, JULY ti. SIEGE OF CIUDAD RODRIGO. June 27.—The 3d return on the right was pro longed as far as the walls of the Convent of the Holy Cross, and the 4th was widened to the extent of 15 toises. The work began in the left parallel was finished, and the 3d return was commenced, and is making good progress. The mortars and howitzers played the whole night upon the body of the place, the suburb, and the breach. Several other quarters of the town were set tin fire. The enemy wete beard wot king to clear the bieach. June 28.—The extremities of the right and left parallel,: were carried to within less than 80 toises of the top of the glacis. The batteries that had been damaged were repaired, and a new one begun, on which three is-pounders will be mounted, to play upon the suburb on the left. • Bombs and howitzer shills were _thrown, and different quarters of the town continued on fire. June 2g.-At day-break,: the batteries continued their fire upon the breach in the fausse bracie, and for the purpose of ruining the works and the inte rior of the place. Another powder magazine blew up, and Wilt it a considerable quantity of bombs and howitzer shells. Several quarters of the city still continued burning, and the enemy's tire was sEckened. At two o'clock, orders were scot to the batteries to cease firing, for the purpose of sending in a flag of truce to summon the Governor to surrender. :it/MINIONS TO GENERAL KERRASTY, GOVERNOR OF CIUDAD ItuDßlcu. " SlR—The summonses which I have previously had the honour to address to you, and to which you replied in the negati, e, have compelled me to resort to such formidable means as must convince you that the fortress, of which the government is confided to you, must inevitably be soon reduced to the last ex tremity. His Serene Highness the Prince of Ess ling, Commander in Chief of the Army of Portugal, who, is present, and whose honour and humanity are well known, orders me, Sir, to send you this last summons. I feel pleasure in doing justice to your excellent defence, and the courage shewn by the troops that compose your garrison ; •but these considerations, always so valuable in the opinion of the French armies, are lost to you, if you henceforth persist in prolonging a useless defence; and his Highness the Prince of Essling, though with regret, will be compelled to treat you with all the rigour authorised by .the laws of war. ,If you had any hope of being succoured by the English, you are doubt less, by this lime, undeceived. Must you not, in fad, be convinced, that, if such had been their in tention, they would not, in order to its execution, have waited until Ciedad Rodrigo should be reduced to its present deplorab:e condition ? Your situation, be assured, Sir, cannot henceforth but become worse. You have to choose between an honour able capitulation and the terrible vengeance of a victorious army. I ►eduest that you tA ill give m e an answer, and positively inform the which you will prefer. Accept, Sir, &c. (Signed) " The'Marshal Duke of ELCIIINGEN." 'The Prince of Esslitz not keying tbonglit proper to grant the Governor's 'request, for prrinission to write to Lost Wellington, the tiring has recom- menced. A number of accomptants have got oet for Hol land, where they wi:l - a& under the orders of his Highness the Prince Arch-Treasurer. An article from Trieste, of the 30th ult. says : " A number of the vessels under sequestration were sold here a ‘ few days ago. Agt eat part of the car goes, consisting of raisins, was spoiled. We have no longer any arrivals from the Levant here, or at Fiume." By a decree of the 1 Ath tilt. eighteen of the thirty-two bishopricks of Rome and Trassimene are suppressed, as are also all the abbeys in the said de partments. Among the teasons alleged in the pre amble for this measure, it to stated that seventeen of the Bishops had put themselves out of the Empe ror's proteEtion, by refusing to take the oaths to his Majesty, and that only fourteen of them bad performed that first of duties recommended by Jesus Christ, namely, submission to the established powers. The Imperial Procurator has entered an appeal from the judgment 'of the Council of War, acquit .ting the Ex Commandant of French Guyana, Victor Hugues, of the charges brought against him. This affair will, of course, come under the cognizance of the Permanent Council of Revision. SCILLA, JUNE 30.—0 n the 29th inst. a convoy proceeded to Scilla, having passed by Palmi, on the way Bagnara, all the English flotilla came out of the Strait and made for that point. His Majesty's flotilla being prevented getting up by the wind and current, the vessels that protected the convoy were engaged with half of the enemy's force, when the Neapolitan fleet joined them. the escort commanded by M. Delgrado defended itself with as much success as bravery, and no part of the convoy was cut off. In the 'presence of the flotillas, Captain Saint Capraix formed his line of defence, when a very heavy fire commenced, which was kept up for ten hours, without the enemy being able, notwithstanding their very great superiority, to take possession of a single boat. A corvette and two brigs joined their flotilla, and he had fifty boats lull of troops. One of their gun boats was.sunk; and the two brigs were so roughly handled, that eighteen boats were employed to tow them off. A single Neapolitan bark, which separated from the convoy, was taken ; five men were killed, and ten or twelve wounded. This last attempt, in which the English endea voured to avail themselves of the advantage of the wind, and to take us by surprise, was in its result neither more glorious for them, nor encouraging to the Sicilians, than those that preceded it. MILAN, JULY 8.--By a decree of June 30, there shall be established on the frontier-of the Upper Adige and the foreign countries contiguous, a line of Custom-houses, the stations of which ate to be determined by the Ministers of Finance, for the purpose of receiving import and transit duties, ac cording to the laws and regulations of the kingdom relating to the customs. The; -, , is at present forming in the island of Cor sica, a regiment, to consist of four battalions, under the name of the regiment of the Mediterranean. The first battalion is already completed. From its military appearance we may augur that this corps will be the most formidable rampart of the depart ments of Golo and Lianione. 'The greater part of the officers employed in the formation of the three other battalions have been selected from among brave veterans. VIENNA, JULY 1.-Letters from Wallachia state, that the Russians gained another decisive victory, on the 16th of June, over the Turks. Ishmael- Bey, and Prince Kallimachi, with 4000 men, are said to have been taken prisoners. The Turks be sides had 10,000 killed and wounded. The Rus sian corps that crossed the Danube, some time be fore at Hirsowa, makes great progress. MAI LS. ARRIVED—I Dublin, t ‘Vaterford. Duz—t Cadiz, a Lisbon, I Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWILLYZ O'CLOCK. Consols - - . -6Ski I Red. Ann. . - 6S 69k THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICIRE FALSUAI AUDKAT ? REPLY. " After 4g years service, I cannot but know the laws of war, and my military duties. " The fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo is not in a state to capitulate, nor is there any breach fOrmed io it that might compel it to do so. " I cannot, therefore, do otherwise than desire your Excellency to continue your operations against the place. I can of myself, from motives of huma nity, and when circumstances make it my duty, apply for terms.of capitulation, after securing my honour, which is dearer to me than life. " But, as the Officer sent by your Excellency has given nit: to understand that your generosity align( go the length of permitting me to send dis patches to the English General Wellington, I will accept that proposition. Until the return of the Courier to be dispatched, things shall remain in. stalu quo, and according to the answer of the Eng lish General, I shall make to your Excellency the requisite overtures. " I have the honour to be, (Signed) " ANDRE DE KERRA3TY." L 0 ND 0 N. TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1810. The following paragraph was this day posted up at LLOYD'S :—‘ 41 It gives us great pleasure to be enabled to state, that the report of a party of Blacks, under the influ ence of the French Government, entering the mess room of the British Officers at Dominica, and bar barously murdering the greatest part of them, is en tirely without foundation. The latest accounts from Dominica are of the 7th June, brought by the Mars, which arrived off Brighton yesterday. The Captain of her positively contraditas the statement." Paris Papers to the 18th reached town last night. They contain details of the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo to the !..)gth ult. Marshal NEY had summoned the town to surrender, but the Governor returned a firm] refusal ; be, however, asked permission to communicate with Lord WELLINGTON,' but MAS SENA would not grant his request. The report of Louis BUONAPAR,TE having escaped to Tonningen, for the purpose of embarking for Atherica, appears to have been unfounded. He went, it is stated, to. Cassel, to his brother JEROME. There is no other intelligence of any importance in these Papers. 'The rumour of a rupture between Russia and France is again current on the Continent; some letters which have been received even go so far as to say, that an alliance, offensive and defensive, be. tween Great Britain, Russia, and Sweden, is about to take place. We certainly are not inclined to 'believe the report to this extent, but there are strong reasons for suspeBing that 'a considerable degree of coolness subsists between ALEXANDER and BooNa- PARTE. Since the terminatio❑ of the Austrian' war, the services of the Emperor of Russia have not been so necessary to BUONAPARTE, and since that period the language of the French papers, with re gard to that Prince, have undergone a material change. He has not indeed become an object of abuse, but all the fulsome panegyrics with which he used to be loaded have ceased. The connexion which now subsists between BUONAPARTE and the House of Austria, has rendered the former still more indifferent with respect to the friendship or enmity of the Emperor of Russia. However infatuated ALEXANDER may have been, he cannot now but see that he has been made the dupe of BUONAPARTE ; that lie has sacrificed the best interests of his sub jeEts, to promote the ambitious views, and gratify the resentments of the French Ruler; but what effect this tardy discovery may have upon his future con do& it is difficult to conjecture. BUONAPARTE has taken care to keep him employed, ever since the Peace of Tilsit, in a war either with Sweden or with Turkey ; and while so great a part of his forces are engaged in prosecuting the latter war, we should not think it very likely that he would adopt any measures that might lead him into immediate hos tilities with BUONAPARTE. In the letter of General ARMSTRONG, the Ame rican Ambassador at Paris, to M. CHAMPAGNY, he mentions a circumstance, as a complaint against the French Government, which in our opinion does no great honoOr to that of America. He states, that the American Government being desirous of making a remittance " to fulfil their engagements to the holders of the public debt in Holland, but unable, from the present state of commerce, to do so by the usual mode of remitting Bills of Exchange," thought proper to send over a cargo of tobacco on board the Hero, bound to Tonningen,where the cargo was to be sold, and the proceeds transmitted to Amsterdam,.for the purpose above-mentioned. Th:s vessel was pro teded by a special certificate from the American •Government, that the voyage was undertaken for the purpose of making a national remittance. The case of a Government assuming the chara6ter cf a private merchant is rather rare, and if tolerated, at least to any extent, would make a most important alteration in the commercial relations of different States. There appears, however, strong reason to believe that this was a real commercial speculation, and the vessel and cargo were clothed with a kind of national charaeler, in order, with impunity, to break the British Orders of Blockade. It is stated, that the ship being much damag ed, "the Captain believed it to be his duty, on the principle of self-preservation, to enter the first port he could make." By a most ex traordinary instance of good fortune, the first port that presents itself to him, under these circum stances, is the Texel, the port of all others the most convenient for him to enter, because, agreeable to his account, the proceeds of his cargo (according to our opinion the cargo itself) was destined for Am sterdam. This is rather a singular circumstance and when coupled with the assertion that the re mittance was made in tobacco, because no Bills could be procured, it certainly does cteate a case of consi derable suspicion. . Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, accompanied by the Duke of Yoiu and Princess AUGUSTA, took an airing on horseback in Windsor Great Park till twelve o'clock. The Royal Party was attended by Earls LIVERPOOL, BATHURST, &o. The KING is expected in town to morrow, to hold a private Levee and Privy Council at the Queen's Palace. WINDSOR TERRAce.—Sunday evening there was a very grand Terrace. His MAJESTY, Princesses AUGUSTA and ELIZABETH, walked till near nine o'clock. The Royal party was accompanied by The Duchess of Richmond, the Marquis and Marchioness Cornwallis, the Marchioness of Bath and daughter, Earl and Countess of Liverpool, Lord and Lady Boston, Lady Len nox, Lady Howeand daughter, Countess Harcourt, Mr. and Mrs. Perceval, Lady Collyer, Count Munster, Mrs. ()tax Grosvenor and daughter, Sir Lucas Pepys, Mr. and Mrs. Freernantle, Generals Garth and %Vinyard, and a large as semblage of very genteel company. His MAJESTY seemed highly delighted with the company, and conversed with all the persons of dil tin6lion at different times during the time he was walking. The Terrace was crowded with the first fashionable and genteel company in the country; during the promenade, the bands of the Royal Horse Guards (Blues) with their silver drums, and Stafford Militia band, played mariid and other pieces. A letter from Lord WELLI NGTON, in reply to one from the Duchess of RICOIOND, expressing the Duke's and his son, Lord MARCH'S, desire for the latter to serve in the army under him, contains the following paragraph, announcing his Lordship's ex peatation of a speedy battle :—" I hope that my noble young friend may soon embark and join me here, because he will then probably' see that which he will remember for the remainder of his military life I!' There WAS a Court of Aldermen held this day, when the LORD MAYOR, atter inspeaing the returns, ordered the price of breed to be continued at Is. sd. the quactern loaf. NAVAL NEWS. PnaTSMOUTH, JULY 23.—Caine in this day 1)14 Majesty's ships Diana. and Skylark from a cruig off Havre; and his Majesty's ships Piller:tan and Citcerly, the former froth u cruize and the latter from Guernsey. Arrive l the Charlton, BREDDY, from London ; and the Commerce, ADIE, from London, for Quebec. DEAL, JULY 23.—The Algerine cutter remaiDl with her convoy wind-bound. Arrived the Appelles gun-brig from a cruize, and remains with a fleet of transports, pit of which have the 7th battalion of Veterais on bcalci Gibraltar. FALMOUTH, JULY 52 1 .—Sailed the Karicis Era' ling packet for Halifax and. New York, aad Eliza ditto fur Cadiz. The Dispatch packet, Captain HAREts, lo g arrived at Falmouth from Rio Janeiro, whence sh sailed on the the :enth of May. The following i g an extract of a letter received by this conveyance Rio JANEIRO, MAY t9.—A very unpleasant circumstance has occurred at this place. Some Eng' lish have been taken up for causing disturbances 0 a a Good Frida y . Th e y are accused o f having let n h fire-works on that day ; and they have been it"' prisoned ever since, and are to reina;rl in CUltodY until they quit the country. Several of them have received wounds, and were terribly beaten by th e Police with their swolds, even after their hand s were tied behind. them. Lord STRANGFoRD l'a s hitherto declined to interfere in this affair. W e have had great rejoicings here, owing to t=le riage of Don PEnta, the Nephew of FErtniNAO VII. and the Princess Royal, the daughter of the Prince Regent." A Gentleman of the name of GRorE, a Car taro, started at four &clock yesterday morning at Hounslow, to go 40 miles in eight hours, for 100 guineas. The pedestrian took his route over Sun bury Common through Staines, Windsor, Maidea head, and back to the nine-mile stone : he did srt miles the first hour, but he was seven hours a" five minutes doing thirty-five miles, and then rt" signed. By the Jamaica Packet we have obtained 30" tional news respeaing the proceedings on the COO' threat of South America, and also the folloci letter, strewing that th e s pi r i t of instzi . reeition t extended to the insular d epen d enc i es o f S pa i n i n Lb' part of the world : " CURACOA, jkl NE 52.-I am happy to inform of the arrival of a vessel from St. Thomas, wi' icl ; announces the 161lo,.king iwelligence of P o rto having foilos.ve.l the glorious example of the C: 3# ra cca "'A schooner of Don Pedro Cabrera, from C- W thagena to La Gaira, has touched at this pit, 1 11 '; in g left at the l a t ter p l ac e t h e t wo Conitnitiso,ie fiona Caraccas, Captain Villa Vicencio of flj and the son of th. Marquis or Silva O t 'L, of the Revolution in Unite, ; and the Ma-ter of "i said schoon er s t ate d, t h at a novisional Governtua had. been established." Through the same channel we learn, that the 51) ; preme Junta at Venezuela, proposes to cAI out tits male pnpulation of those provinces from the age i v e 16 to 60, to be form e d un d er the. direelion 01 ta d Magistracy into a militia. The officers to comniz i companies are to be seleaed from and nQuiitwed' b) , the general body, and th ose are to appo i nt their Field Officers. The Junta has resolved to receive n ° foreign troops into teir terri%Aries on any prctel whatever, but to trust entirely to their own intt%" l ' sources of defence. Our letters from MAta contain the following r ile; laneholy- article of Naval Intelli gence , w hi c h `•‘'' trust may prove, if not unfounded, at leat c onside r; ably exaggerated :—" A few days snce, just a tte the hands of his M a j esty ' s s hi ps R epulse, of 74 Otis' Captain J. HALLIDAY, had bee n piped on deck, a . i7id sheet of lightning pissed along it, and struc' one hundred of the _men instantaneously dead 1 ": We have not heard of the least accident hetalli any other ship on the station." The apprehension of another rupture on the froo; tiers of Travancore. is confirmed by a letter receile t by the last fleet, dated Lidigul, Jan. 28, sta ti n g that Meer Khan hal succeeded in gaining partisans in 1 116 South, who were to create a diversion in his tavoor' In pursuance of this plan, while the B r i t i s h at(hf was approaching Bundlecund,lave Ambeiee, tb o i enemy's new ally, m a d e hi s appearance at the toot the Southern Ghants, where he had culletted all tI adherents of the late disinfeted Poligars, togeth er with a number of desperadoes who had be en driven into the hills during the preceo° war in the Cochin and Travancore courorics. --. The insurgents have possessed themselves o f sj a/t1 mud forts, and were at the above date bu.ily e' t ". ployed in strengthening their positions, l'!icir tov- g was increasing daily. MolAve Atnbojce, th,tir leader , is a turbulent - eat husiast,whb had acquired popularity' by predicting future events, but he lays no claim to military talents. We learn from authority in which we are dispose d to place full confidence, that LUCIE.N BuoNFO' rg has very openly avowed his conviction of the iwp os ' sibility that the various people of the continent can ibg submit to the system of insult, slavery, and oppres sion, to which th ey are :it present subjected,but tltat some dreadful eunvulsion will at once thr°l off the yoke o f F rance, and produce a genera anarchy This convimion, we are positively assareaT has induced him to remit great part of his'poopedY to America, and that a house has been actualty tal" eu for him in Philadelphia. DUBLIN, JULY IB.—A Meeiing has hen hell in this City, of the Bankers, &c. for the purpos i e viating the public distress at this perio , d, wbtax th e following sub:Triptions were iinmediately try tee, viZ• the Lord Lie u t enant, 300 guineas Lord_ Chan' cellor, 200 ; Mr. W. W. Pole, - 200 ; M c, Foste r (the Attorney-General), 100 ; Sir Chad ;s . 100 ; and twelve other Gentlemen, guineas' each.—Young has renewed his theatric sl engaV e trent I:ere for a tcw nights longer. t. C a tz el, Pr, f~ ~q a~